Sunday, January 3, 2016

Conservatives Need To Avoid The Libertarian Trap

There’s a reason liberals have been so successful in
advancing their agenda in the past few decades. It’s not just electoral
victories – they’ve played a part, and it’s easier to make things happen
if you winelections. But the main factor in their victories is one
thing we conservatives are losing sight of: patience.

In the
time of Twitter breaking news, Tinder, microwaves, On Demand, etc.,
patience is as dead as detectives wearing Fedoras and calling people
“Mac.” But it’s key in politics, and conservatives have forgotten that.

Ronald
Reagan – the real man, not the myth created with his name – understood
the importance of patience. He almost won the GOP nomination in 1976 but
lost to President Gerald Ford.

Although Ford was no
conservative, Reagan didn’t turn on him. He supported him. When Ford
lost, that opened the door to Reagan’s victory four years later. Had
Reagan refused to support Ford, or actively criticized Ford and hurt him
in the 1976 election, there’s a chance 1980 would’ve turned out
differently.

Even as president, Reagan understood the
importance of patience. His victories in dealing with Congress and the
Soviet Union (not much of a difference there, in many respects) didn’t
come immediately. Incrementalism was a key weapon – you take what you
can get and keep fighting for the rest. What Reagan didn’t do was throw
up his hands when he didn’t get all he wanted, leaving small victories
on the table because total victory wasn’t, at that moment, obtainable.

This establishes once again that the jihad is not provoked by what we
say and do — because if anyone has indefatigably pursued a course of not
saying or doing anything that could possibly anger Islamic jihadis or
Muslims in general, it’s Hillary Clinton. “Media gleefully reporting
al-Shabab video with Trump, IGNORES Hillary and ‘Black […]Read in browser »

On behalf of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition (JOC), we would like to
go on record as SUPPORTING your S 2184 – Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2015.

From the outset, the concepts
embodied in this legislation are greatly appreciated and exhibit true
commitment to accountability and good governance in relevance to
spending US taxpayers’ money. Even so, the JOC believes that the bill
could be improved in a manner that brings more effectiveness and
transparency to the way US taxpayers’ money is being spent. For example:

1. ON COUNTLESS OCCASIONS, YOU PERSONALLY HAVE EXHIBITED SUPPORT FOR
JORDAN’S KING, THE JOC FEARS THIS COULD BE CONTRADICTORY TO THE BILL,
BECAUSE JORDAN’S KING EXHIBITS NO TRANSPARENCY AND HEADS A
HIGHLY-CORRUPTED REGIME, THEREFORE, WE BELIEVE THE MEASURE MUST BE
EXTENDED TO SECURE THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION ON HOW US TAXPAYERS
MONEY IS SPENT BY MIDDLE EASTERN ALLIES WHO RECEIVE US AID MONEY; JORDAN
IN PARTICULAR.

Next week, Congress will send a bill to the White House in hopes of
repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood next week, and Rep
Vicky Hartzler said in Saturday's GOP address that the president will need to make some important decisions.

"We owe it to the American people to take our best shot at repealing
Obamacare, and that’s what we’ll do next week,” the Missouri Republican
said. "As a result, President [Barack] Obama will soon have a choice:
Does he support the people and women’s health, or does he support
Washington mandates and tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood?"

Hartzler, who co-chairs the House Values Action Team and member of the
Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, is a member of the Select Investigative
Panel on Infant Lives, commented that the bill is a "significant step"
to improve the nation's healthcare system, as patients would be able to
choose an insurance plan without Washington interfering.

"That’s the problem with Obamacare," Hartzler said. "It forces people to
buy insurance that’s much more expensive than what they need. And when
you force millions of people to buy expensive and unaffordable
insurance, it’s not that surprising to see premiums going up."

Deductibles are rising too, and Americans are losing their doctors and can't find a good insurance plan.

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